Juggalos: 5 Things Men Should Know

4- Juggalos made Law And Order

The long-running NBC show is always ripping stories from the headlines, and on March 1, 2010, they did it again with the episode "Steel-Eyed Death" (known casually as "the Juggalo episode”).

The episode is based on the previously mentioned Farmville murders, believed to have been committed in 2009 by 20-year-old amateur horrorcore rapper Richard McCroskey, who rapped under the name "Syko Sam.” McCroskey, a California resident, flew to Virginia in September of that year to visit his online girlfriend, and for reasons known only to him, he bludgeoned her, her parents and her best friend.

5- Juggalos are the alleged target of a “holocaust”

The last thing men should know about Juggalos is that they are a group almost tailor-made for the internet age.

Take the "Juggalo Holocaust,” an alleged secretive group of maniacs intent on killing all Juggalos. They wear JH on their clothes and are apparently responsible for the deaths of 20 to 25 Juggalos, and the rapes of a handful of Juggalettes (naturally, evidence — like news reports of these crimes — is impossible to come by). Now on its face, "Juggalo Holocaust" is so phenomenally ridiculous that it's embarrassing even to have to type out, but it illuminates a telling concept behind this subculture: Juggalos perceive and define themselves as persecuted, forcibly banished social pariahs, targeted simply because they don't fit in, a notion which things like JH, despite it having the maturity level of a ninth-grade book report, drive home with efficacy. In reality, JH is most likely a Juggalo invention, a straw man someone threw up in order to give him and his fellow outcasts further justification to remain obscured as they are, whether by self-imposed exile, internet anonymity or clown face-paint.